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In the firing line

A SENATOR has demanded that the US Navy hand over documents that could reveal
if a link exists between a military fuel and a cluster of 14 childhood leukaemia
cases near a naval airbase in Nevada.

Concerns about health risks have mounted since the fuel, called JP-8, was
introduced to American airbases in the 1990s after trials in Britain in the
1980s. Animal tests have shown that it can cause lung, kidney and liver damage,
and is highly toxic to the immune system. The Pentagon has even commissioned
studies to determine whether JP-8 exposure contributed to Gulf …